As more companies deploy containers in production—and many of them use Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform—the need for a dynamic and consistent storage platform that works across diverse operating environments becomes critical for containerized applications, an area where many traditional storage devices fall short. Red Hat's vision is to enable customers to build any application and deploy it consistently anywhere. With today's announcement, Red Hat is expanding the availability of Red Hat Gluster Storage for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in AWS environments, fostering true portability for containerized applications with consistent storage.
Red Hat Gluster Storage is software-defined storage integrated and optimized for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, the most comprehensive Kubernetes platform for developing cloud-native applications. Red Hat Gluster Storage can be deployed anywhere the Red Hat OpenShift container platform runs—bare metal, containers, virtual machines, and public and private clouds—providing consistent storage for containerized application users and developers. Furthermore, storage provisioning and deployment are automated by Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, offering self-service access to developers and users.
Red Hat's solution for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 with Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 on AWS is detailed in a new reference architecture. In addition, Red Hat offers an Ansible playbook for building a Red Hat OpenShift Container cluster on AWS with Red Hat Gluster Storage to help customers get up and running faster.
